2. Ryan Hall

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Ryan Hall, who has a number of credits to his name, including coming in 2nd place in the 2012 Olympic Marathon trials with a time of 2:09.30 and 5th place in the 2011 Chicago Marathon, started running at the tender age of 13 and it’s all been uphill since. He starts every morning with a run and then makes his way to the gym in the afternoon and typically finishes with another run afterwards depending on his training goals. On average, he’ll run anywhere between 8 and 25 miles a day in preparation for the marathon event and prefers to work off a seven-week cycle with his training, taking the seventh week as a down week. He focuses less on mileage travelled and more on the number of minutes he’s run and how his legs felt while doing so. If he’s tired, he listens up and calls it a shorter run day.To fuel up, he prefers a two-day carbohydrate loading period rather than one very high carb meal pre-race, and credits frequent eating throughout the day as the key to keeping his energy up.